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Mac RumorsAug 22, 2026
Top Stories: Apple Leaks - Camera-Equipped AirPods, Beats 360, and More
It was a big week for leaks in the Apple world, with Apple itself revealing information on a bunch of upcoming products within a macOS Tahoe 26.7 build and retailers leaking details on new Beats 360 headphones that could be launching soon.


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Apple Vision Pro Was Almost Called 'Reality Pro' (Mac Rumors)

EngadgetAug 22, 2026
Are digital cameras still worth buying in 2026?
Yes, so long as you're willing to put in the work (and money) for better photos.

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Is Nintendo Switch Online still worth it in 2026? (Engadget)

Yahoo TechnologyAug 22, 2026
Rocket Lab and AST SpaceMobile Are Priced for the Big Bang. One Space Stock Already Delivered.


EngadgetAug 22, 2026
Uber hit with a nearly $1 billion fine for automatically deactivating drivers in Europe
A Dutch data regulatory authority said that Uber has to pay 824.9 million euros for violating the GDPR.

CNET NewsAug 22, 2026
This Star Whips Around the Milky Way's Black Hole Faster and Closer Than Any Other Known Star
At 15,500 miles per second, it's the fastest planet or star ever observed by science, but its true value is how close it is to our galaxy's supermassive black hole.

SlashDotAug 22, 2026
Firefox Announces Free VPN and 'Startpage' Search Engine Rolling Out to Android, iOS - Plus GeForce NOW Support


EngadgetAug 22, 2026
Amazon devices are the latest casualties of the memory shortage price hikes
Everything from the Echo to the Kindle is going up.

New York Times TechAug 22, 2026
Sick of Constant Pings, They're Sending Texts at the Speed of Carrier Pigeon
Apps that let users send digital messages at ultraslow speeds have taken off, with users reveling in a slower pace of life. (Just don't use the them to make dinner plans.)

EngadgetAug 21, 2026
Apple reportedly cut more than 200 jobs across Vision Pro and Siri software teams
Apple has laid off employees in its Vision Pro and Siri teams as it shifts focus to smart glasses and next-gen AI tech.

ResearchBuzzAug 21, 2026
Tonga Photography, Startpage, Divine, More: Friday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, August 21, 2026
NEW RESOURCES The Coconet: Historic photographs of Tonga brought to life in new digital collection. "A remarkable collection of historic photographs capturing Tongan life throughout the 20th century is now available online, […]

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National Parks, Lavender Atlas, PFAS in Household Goods, More: Friday ResearchBuzz, August 21, 2026 (ResearchBuzz)

New York Times TechAug 21, 2026
TikTok Settles With U.S. Over Child Privacy Concerns for $400 Million
The Justice Department resolved a lawsuit that accused the social media company of illegally gathering children's information.

SlashDotAug 21, 2026
Apple Cuts Jobs In Siri, Vision Pro Immersive Video and Gaming Teams


EngadgetAug 21, 2026
TikTok will pay $400 million to settle Justice Department lawsuit over child privacy
The DoJ said the app has made significant strides in privacy protections since the 2024 suit.

SlashDotAug 21, 2026
Micron Unveils $10 Billion AI Memory Research Lab In Boise


eWeekAug 21, 2026
Xiaomi's New Humanoid Robot Installs Nuts, Sorts Panels in EV Factory Trial
Xiaomi's latest humanoid robot spent four months training inside an EV factory, revealing progress and remaining hurdles for industrial robotics.

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Humanoid Robots Make Beds, Move Luggage in China's Latest Work Test (eWeek)

EngadgetAug 21, 2026
Tesla and others recall over 4 million vehicles in China over hidden door handles
Tesla and others recall over 4 million vehicles in China over door handles.

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In China's Biggest Car Recall, Tesla and 8 Others Will Address Door Safety (New York Times Tech)

Yahoo TechnologyAug 21, 2026
Billionaire Investor Stanley Druckenmiller Just Sold Intel and Micron, and Piled Into 2 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stocks That Are Betting Big on Robotics


Mac RumorsAug 21, 2026
Apple's Camera-Equipped AirPods: All the New Rumors
Apple is working on AirPods that have cameras for feeding data to Siri. The new earbuds will be Apple's first AI wearable, and they're expected to launch sometime in 2027.



Yahoo TechnologyAug 21, 2026
CEO of viral backflipping robot company says robots are still years from ‘ChatGPT moment,' even after investors sent his stock soaring 460%


EngadgetAug 21, 2026
We have more details on Apple's camera-equipped AirPods and they are pretty dang weird
Each earbud takes its own image, which is then synchronized for use by Visual Intelligence.

CNET NewsAug 21, 2026
Ninja Releases Practical Magic-Inspired Slushie Machine After Original Sold Out in 2 Hours
Ahead of the Practical Magic 2 movie this September, Ninja is commemorating the iconic franchise with new spellbinding shades.

New York Times TechAug 21, 2026
OpenAI's Two-Week Pause Jill Lepore on the Threat of the "Artificial State" Train of Thought
"It is the first time that we know of that a major lab has voluntarily slowed down."

Washington Post TechAug 21, 2026
Why this U.S. state is trying to ban ‘addictive' social media features to protect teens
Advocates say legislation in the nation's most populous state would carry particular weight in the national movement to curb tech's influence on young people.

Yahoo TechnologyAug 21, 2026
Exclusive: Amazon quietly hiked prices on Echo, Fire TV, Kindle, and eero overnight to offset ‘significant increases' in memory costs


Gizmag Emerging TechAug 21, 2026
Ferrari just sold a single super-divisive Luce at 62x its asking price


SlashDotAug 21, 2026
Man Dressed As Darth Vader Defends Flock Cameras to San Diego City Council


Mac RumorsAug 21, 2026
Apple Guts Vision Pro Gaming and Immersive Video Teams, Trims Siri Staff
In addition to cutting dozens of Vision Pro employees who worked on features like immersive video and gaming, Apple is laying off people who worked on Siri and AI, reports Bloomberg.


Gizmag Emerging TechAug 21, 2026
Dramatic double-helix steel tower turns bird-watching into walkable art
A new 19.9-meter (65-ft) tower rises like a brutalist-inspired, twisted monolith above its rural surroundi

SlashDotAug 21, 2026
Walmart To Finally Start Accepting Apple Pay and Google Pay


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Apple Pay Supporting U.S. National Park Foundation Over the Next Week (Mac Rumors)
Walmart will finally accept tap to pay in stores by the end of 2026 (Engadget)

Yahoo TechnologyAug 21, 2026
The AI ‘death zone' is here and most corporate AI strategies are standing in it


EngadgetAug 21, 2026
Child safety experts are skeptical of OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teens
They say the company must prove it can be trusted before products like these get a pass.

Yahoo TechnologyAug 21, 2026
AI productivity tools are overhyped and overfunded. Investors should look elsewhere


ComputerWorldAug 21, 2026
OpenAI adds an AI safety layer to detect misuse without retaining enterprise data
OpenAI is adding a new safety capability that allows enterprises to detect misuse of its AI systems across multiple interactions without retaining prompts or responses, enabling risk monitoring while preserving its Zero Data Retention (ZDR) commitments.

"OpenAI does not retain…prompts or model responses after a request is processed," the company said in a blog post, describing its ZDR approach. The new system, called Private Safety Processing, is "designed to identify patterns across related interactions without giving OpenAI personnel access to the underlying content."

The capability is being tested with eligible enterprise and API customers and is intended to address a limitation in existing safety controls that evaluate interactions individually, making it harder to detect risks that unfold over time.

What does Private Safety Processing do Private Safety Processing is designed to extend existing safety systems by correlating activity across related interactions rather than analyzing each prompt in isolation, according to OpenAI.

Under the model, automated systems analyze interactions and generate "a narrowly defined signal indicating the type of activity involved," instead of exposing the underlying prompts or responses, according to OpenAI.

The system can o


New York Times TechAug 21, 2026
Flock Cameras. Canoodling Lawyers. How Much Surveillance Are We Comfortable With?
Americans say they hate prying cameras. But they can't look away.

Major GeeksAug 21, 2026
Ghostery for Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Opera, Safari, and Android 10.5.58
Ghostery for Chrome sees the "invisible" detecting trackers, web bugs, pixels, and beacons placed on web pages by over 1,900 ad networks. Ghostery for Chrome is built and maintained for users that care about their online privacy and is engineered with privacy as a primary goal. Ghostery use is anonymous. [License: | Requires: | Size: ]

EngadgetAug 21, 2026
Nevada allows Uber, Tesla and Waymo to start paid robotaxi service
Nevada's transportation authorities approved the companies' application to charge for robotaxi rides.

eWeekAug 20, 2026
Vietnam's Robot Ambitions Grow With New Factory, Homegrown Humanoids
Vietnam's robotics push is growing as AMC prepares a new factory and local companies develop humanoid robots, embodied AI, and advanced robotics technologies.

eWeekAug 20, 2026
Unitree CEO Says Humanoid Robots Near ‘ChatGPT Moment'
Unitree CEO Wang Xingxing says humanoid robots are nearing a "ChatGPT moment," but software limits could keep mass deployment years away.

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Robots poised for 'ChatGPT moment,' Unitree CEO says (Yahoo Technology)

Mac RumorsAug 20, 2026
Apple, Where is CarPlay Ultra?
In May 2025, Apple launched CarPlay Ultra, the long-awaited next-generation version of CarPlay that it first previewed in 2022. More than a year later, however, CarPlay Ultra is still limited to select Aston Martin vehicles with six-figure price tags.


eWeekAug 19, 2026
OpenAI Overhauls AI Safety Controls as Models Reach ‘Critical' Cyber Threshold
OpenAI is tightening security controls and rethinking its Preparedness Framework as advanced AI models create new cyber risks and computing costs.

EngadgetAug 18, 2026
Are your retro games still worth money?
You don't need to have a perfectly preserved copy to fetch cash for your old games. But you need to consider these factors that impact their worth.

KM World ArticlesAug 17, 2026
Instabase becomes SuperApp and debuts new AI collaboration workspace platform
The new platform brings teams and the world's leading AI models into one shared workspace

SlashDotAug 17, 2026
Bipartisan 'Uprising' Against Flock Cameras: a Larger Fight Against Big Tech and Surveillance?


ResearchBuzzAug 14, 2026
Closed Door Romance Database, Czech Republic Holocaust Memorials, WordPress, More: Friday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, August 14, 2026
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me: the Closed Door Romance database. A closed door romance is a romance where the sexual/intimate contact takes place "off-camera." The site contains over 2000 books, filterable in a number […]

SlashDotAug 14, 2026
France's Top Court Blocks Social Media Ban For Under-15s


New York Times TechAug 13, 2026
Another OpenAI Executive, Denise Dresser, Departs the A.I. Start-Up
Denise Dresser, who was previously the C.E.O. of Slack, is the latest in a string of executives to leave the artificial intelligence start-up.

ResearchBuzzAug 09, 2026
International Game Fish Association, UFO Files, Art in the Christian Tradition, More: Sunday ResearchBuzz, August 9, 2026
NEW RESOURCES International Game Fish Association: IGFA Announces the E.K. Harry Digital Archive, a Landmark Effort to Preserve the World's Sportfishing Memory. "The International Game Fish Association (IGFA) has announced the launch […]

ComputerWorldJul 29, 2026
OpenAI's runaway AI agent also compromised a cloud platform customer
OpenAI's renegade AI agent, which carried out a high-profile breach of the AI platform Hugging Face, also reportedly compromised a customer of the cloud platform Modal Labs, according to Reuters.

The agent is said to have exploited a vulnerability in the customer's own code, where an unprotected endpoint allowed anyone to run code in an isolated test environment.

Modal Labs emphasized that its own infrastructure was not compromised and that the security isolation worked as intended.

OpenAI declined to comment on the Modal case, but referred to a recent update in which the company confirmed that the tested AI agent managed to gain access to four accounts across four separate services. The company has not named the services.



ResearchBuzzJul 25, 2026
National Library of Medicine, Google, Slovenia Cultural Heritage, More: Saturday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, July 25, 2026
NEW RESOURCES National Library of Medicine: 250 Years of American Medicine, a new NLM History of Medicine digital gallery. "Announced earlier this month, NLM History of Medicine unveiled its most recent project, […]

KM World ArticlesJul 07, 2026
Domino Data Lab and Appsilon collaborate to hasten AI to production for life sciences
Two companies already collaborating with the world's largest pharma organizations are now working together to move open-source AI into regulated production

KM World ArticlesJul 06, 2026
AI 100 Trailblazer: Altuent builds reliable AI outputs starting with better human-centric knowledge foundations
As organisations accelerate the adoption of tools such as Microsoft Copilot and AI agents, a consistent?challenge is emerging: AI outputs are only as trustworthy?as the knowledge they are built on. In many organisations, content is fragmented, inconsistent, and lacking the structure and context required to generate reliable answers. Altuent addresses this by focusing on the foundations of knowledge.

GizmodoApr 16, 2026
SpaceX and Other Elon Musk Companies Are Propping Up Cybertruck Sales
SpaceX alone reportedly accounted for nearly 20% of Cybertrucks registered in the U.S. in late 2025.

PC World Latest NewsOct 15, 2025
LG's fast 27-inch 1440p gaming monitor is a stunning $167 today

The LG UltraGear 27GS60QC-B is a stunning 27-inch display that delivers exceptional performance you can rely on. It has a crisp "sweet spot" 2560×1440 native resolution, which is great whether you're gaming or streaming Netflix. Add in the fast 180Hz refresh rate and 1ms response time and you have a liquidy smooth visual experience that's lag-free even during the most action-packed scenes and games.

This monitor has a nice 1000R curvature that bends around your vision, easing eye fatigue and making for more comfortable sessions whether you're gaming, tackling work projects, or just mindlessly browsing the web and doomscrolling on social media. Other nice features include HDR10, AMD FreeSync, and a sleek "borderless" bezel. It also has both DisplayPort and double HDMI ports, plus a 3.5mm audio jack.

Right now, you can grab this 27-inch 1440p gaming monitor for just $169.99, and that's an excellent deal for an LG display with these specs, so don't wait and miss this opportunity.

That's a stellar deal for a curved 27-inch 1440p 180Hz monitorBuy this LG monitor on Amazon


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